Dhaka, Bangladesh (BBN)-Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami has called countrywide strike for Thursday, Sunday and Monday protesting the death penalty awarded to its chief Motiur Rahman Nizami for war crimes.
The party called the strike immediately after a special tribunal in Bangladesh Wednesday handed down death penalty to Nizami, the president of the then Jamaat-e-Islami student wing Islami Chhatra Sangha and chief of Pakistan army auxiliary force Al-Badr, for him crimes against humanity that he had committed during Bangladesh’s Liberation War in 1971.
According to a press release posted on Jamaat's website, the party will enforce a 24-hour strike from 6:00am Thursday.
The party will resume the strike after the weekend, imposing a 48-hour shutdown from 6:00am Sunday.
BBN/SS/AD-29Oct14-1:30pm (BST)